Novell may be passionately evangelising Linux and Open Office on the desktop but more than half of its own employees can still boot Windows and Office if they wish. Ron Hovsepian, Novell's president, speaking at a press event in Sydney, conceded that "about 2000 employees right now out of 5000 are single-boot only, which is Linux only, the rest are dual-boot." He said that a project to migrate the 3000 dual-boot workers to open source is likely to be completed over the next year or so.

There was a news article earlier today where Novell president Ron Hovsepian said that desktop Linux will "begin taking off in mainstream markets in the next 12 to 18 months". Perhaps he should get his own company sorted before he starts making predictions about the rest of the market.

It's interesting that after being a Linux distro for so long they've only got 40% of their machines moved over to Linux...